On this day: 19 September
Events, births and deaths on 19 September. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
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10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Masatoshi Koshiba
- Births · James Lipton
- Births · Duke Snider
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1123 · Deaths · Emperor Taizu of Jin
- 961 · Deaths · Helena Lekapene
- 931 · Births · Emperor Muzong of Liao
Events · 23
- 1356Battle of Poitiers — 1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War
- 1777Battles of Saratoga — 1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
- 1799Battle of Bergen — 1799 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
- 1846Our Lady of La Salette — Marian apparition
- 1862Battle of Iuka — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1864Battle of Opequon — 1864 battle of the American Civil War
- 1868Glorious Revolution — 1868 revolution in Spain that deposed Queen Isabella II
- 1870Siege of Paris — 1870 siege during the Franco-Prussian War
- 1918Battle of Megiddo — 1918 battle of the First World War which was fought in Ottoman Palestine
- 1944Battle of Hürtgen Forest — 1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
- 1944Moscow Armistice — peace treaty ending the Continuation War
- 1961Betty and Barney Hill incident — alleged UFO abduction event
- 19761976 Tehran UFO incident — Radar and visual sighting of a UFO over Tehran, Iran
- 1976Turkish Airlines Flight 452 — 1976 aviation accident
- 19851985 Mexico City earthquake — September 19th, 1985 earthquake in Mexico City, Mexico
- 1989UTA 772 bombing — 1989 plane crash
- 20062006 Thai coup d'état — coup d'état
- 20082008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash — fatal air crash during take-off
- 20142014 Asian Games — 17th edition of the Asian Games
- 20172017 Central Mexico earthquake — September 2017 earthquake in Mexico
- 20212021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption — volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands, (Spain)
- 20222022 Western México earthquake — Very strong and deadly tsunamigenic earthquake, magnitude 7.7, occurred on the south west coast of Mexico, on September 19
- 20232023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh — 2023 military offensive against the self-declared breakaway state of Artsakh
Births · 60
- 86(Julian date)Antoninus Pius — 15th Roman Emperor (138–161)
- 866(Julian date)Leo VI the Wise — Byzantine Emperor
- 1377(Julian date)Albert IV, Duke of Austria — Austrian duke
- 1426(Julian date)Maria of Cleves — French noble (1426-1487)
- 1551(Julian date)Henry III of France — King of France from 1574 to 1589 (1551-1589)
- 1560(Julian date)
- 1749Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre — French mathematician and astronomer
- 1759William Kirby — British entomologist (1759-1850)
- 1802Lajos Kossuth — Hungarian politician (1802–1894)
- 1803Empress Maria Anna of Austria — Austrian, Hungarian and Bohemian Consort (1803-1884)
- 1867Arthur Rackham — English book illustrator (1867-1939)
- 1869Ben Turpin — American actor (1869-1940)
- 1898Giuseppe Saragat — 5th President of Italy (1898-1988)
- 1908Mika Waltari — Finnish writer (1908–1979)
- 1909Ferry Porsche — Austrian-German automobile designer (1909–1998)
- 1913Frances Farmer — American actress (1913–1970)
- 1921Paulo Freire — lawyer, college teacher, author
- 1922Emil Zátopek — Czech long-distance runner (1922-2000)
- 1922Damon Knight — American science fiction writer, editor and critic (1922–2002)
- 1926Masatoshi Koshiba — Japanese physicist and astronomer (1926-2020)
- 1927Rosemary Harris — British actress
- 1928Adam West — American actor (1928-2017)
- 1934Brian Epstein — British personal manager and impresario (1934–1967)
- 1936Al Oerter — American athlete (1936-2007)
- 1941Cass Elliot — American singer (1941–1974)
Deaths · 60
- 690(Julian date)Theodore of Tarsus — Archbishop of Canterbury
- 961Helena Lekapene — Empress consort of Constantine VII
- 1123(Julian date)Emperor Taizu of Jin — Jin Dynasty emperor (1068-1123)
- 1339(Julian date)Go-Daigo — 96th emperor of Japan (r. 1318–1339)
- 1356(Julian date)Peter I — Duke of Bourbon
- 1356(Julian date)Walter VI, Count of Brienne — Duke of Athens and Governor of Florence
- 1589Jean-Antoine de Baïf — French writer (1532-1589)
- 1710Ole Rømer — Danish astronomer (*1644 – †1710)
- 1785María Antonia of Spain — Spanish infanta (1729-1785)
- 1812Mayer Amschel Rothschild — Jewish German banker (1744–1812)
- 1827Morten Thrane Brünnich — Danish zoologist and mineralogist (1737-1827)
- 1843Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis — French mathematician, mechanical engineer, and scientist (1792–1843)
- 1881James A. Garfield — president of the United States in 1881
- 1902Masaoka Shiki — Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period Japan (1867-1902)
- 1905Thomas John Barnardo — Philanthropist, founder and director of homes for poor children (1845–1905)
- 1927Michael Ancher — Danish artist (1849-1927)
- 1935Konstantin Tsiolkovsky — Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory (1857-1935)
- 1936Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande — Indian musicologist (1860-1936)
- 1944Guy Gibson — first CO of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron (1918–1944)
- 1949Nikos Skalkottas — Greek composer and violinist (1904–1949)
- 1965Lionel Terray — French mountaineer (1921-1965)
- 1967Zinaida Serebryakova — Russian and French painter (1884-1967)
- 1968Chester Carlson — American physicist (1906-1968)
- 1968Red Foley — American country musician (1910–1968)
- 1972Robert Casadesus — French pianist and composer (1899–1972)
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